From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jixra-0002mB-Cq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:22:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BCBEAE04FD; Mon, 7 Apr 2008 20:22:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from duke.localdomain (p78-102.acedsl.com [66.114.78.102]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A20DE04FD for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2008 20:22:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (duke.wrkhors.com [127.0.0.1]) by duke.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7D2328D673 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 2008 16:14:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <47FA80C1.7030606@wrkhors.com> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:14:57 -0400 From: Steven Lembark Organization: Workhorse Computing User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071212) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to? References: <47EC9F50.5070503@bellsouth.net> <68b1e2610804020636rba3f3afw32bad1494c62cc24@mail.gmail.com> <47F3AB3D.3020202@wrkhors.com> <200804021928.01885.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <47F3DC48.3010906@bellsouth.net> <47F50172.8070904@wrkhors.com> <1207268985.13048.6.camel@orpheus> <47F57D9F.7090305@bellsouth.net> <47F65FFC.6060303@wrkhors.com> <20080407014256.3aa98001@pascal.spore.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20080407014256.3aa98001@pascal.spore.ath.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: bc624523-2e4c-458c-be32-5fa003dc7854 X-Archives-Hash: 5b18ebe615029def723a0989774c211f >> Main thing >> that speeds up the AMD box is using 320MB scsi's >> for near-term storage. They are hugely faster than >> [S]ATA or IDE used on most equipment these days. > > what R/W speeds can you expect? Operations on SCSI run 2-3 times faster for large-ish file transfers (say 1MB or more). For example GIMP runs without noticeable pauses on most operations with my 2GHz opteron using the SCSI's as storage and scratch space; on the same machine with the SATA's it bogs down to the point of annoyance, with things like saves taking seconds to complete. The only difference being which drives I'm using for tiles and data. Bonnie gets upset validating the scsi space on this box since it has 8GB of core and I don't have 16GB free on the device so I can't give you any specific numbers. -- Steven Lembark 85-09 90th St. Workhorse Computing Woodhaven, NY, 11421 lembark@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list